Hoping To Build A New Kuwait
Rebuilding looted and battle-scarred Kuwait could take five years and cost as much as $60 billion, according to ever-rising estimates. That tragedy is also a business opportunity - and the Kuwaiti task force coordinating the effort is telling American businesses that they have first dibs. This marks a major shift; since the 1960s, American firms have lost ground to cheaper European and Asian rivals. But recently Saud Nasir Al-Sabah, Kuwait’s ambassador to the United States, wrote to Maryland Rep....